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a 2nd list.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
a list.
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Thursday, April 2, 2009
I've been attempting to explain, (to myself), my attachment to the work of Ivan Turgenev, work which is often built on quite thin narrative structures, or rather there is seldom any great detail given over to that which is not concerned with the central narrative. Besides seeing reflections of my own weak character in several of the cast of these works the extract below offers me a further explanation of the reasons for this attachment.
Turgenev's art derived from images, not from ideas, as he explained himself, and as has been so often analysed and expounded in literary criticism, notably by Henry James who recalls Turgenev's own words in the Preface to Portrait of a Lady. 'It began for him,'says James, 'almost always with the vision of some person or persons who hovered before him, soliciting him as the active or passive figure, interesting him and appealing to him just as they were and by what they were...He...then had to find for them the right relations, those that would most bring them out...' Henry James then introduces Turgenev's own words: 'The result is that I'm often accused of not having "story" enough. I seem to myself to have as much as I need - to show my people, to exhibit their relations with each other; for that is all my measure. If I watch them long enough, I see them come together, I see them placed, I see them engaged in this or that act and in this or that difficulty...' Turgenev's characters were almost invariably drawn from life, but naturally more than one living model might go to the making of a fictional person. Moreover, once the process of writing had been embarked on, the characters would develop an impetus and a life of there own, and would grow and change in the process of writing, sometimes in a manner not originally intended by the author.
This aides my understanding of the aforementioned attachment in that there is something of the above in the way that I see my approach to photography. This is not meant in any grand sense, it is simply that these words equate to how I perceive elements of my practice. In this I am not attempting in the least to equate the humble work I (occasionally) produce with that of Turgenev.
The extract is taken from the critical essay on Turgenev's Spring Torrents - 'Its Place and Significance in the Life and Work of Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev' written by Leonard Schapiro and to be found with his translation of Spring Torrents (pg. 232 in the 1988 reprint of the Penguin edition)
Monday, March 30, 2009
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
reasons to shoot analogue no. 01
people can't ask you to look through your photos in the pub. well they can ask...ha ha good one...ha....good one...yeah....good one that .....I am so desperately lonely...ha good one...so desperately lonely
Monday, March 9, 2009
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Monday, February 16, 2009
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Friday, January 16, 2009
about to cut a photo that I paid a lot of money to get printed. Why (both cutting and printing)? Because I am an idiot. I feel scared aaahh, its ok its ok its ok....its the only way
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
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Sunday, January 4, 2009
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Tuesday, December 9, 2008
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Monday, July 21, 2008
What it is.
blurry mind photography seem not highly stylised technical attributes fawned upon. idea one mutates time application must stayclose to idea, feeling creative conception that attempt release through lens, (abandonment of lens).
Friday, June 20, 2008
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